The researcher made use of the survey research design for this study which is meant to describe and interpret the effect of CalabarFestival/CalabarCarnival on the residents of CalabarMetropolis.The population of this study consists of residents of CalabarMetropolis. A total of 200 respondents were randomly selected from the population.
The main instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire.Close ended questions were constructed and administered to the respondents to enable them choose the alternatives that best describes their opinions. The questionnaire contained two parts. Part 1 is focused on the demographic data of the respondents while part 2 contained data on residents perception of socio-economic and environmental effect of the Christmas Festival/Calabar carnival on the people of Calabar metropolis. The instrument used for data collection was validated using factor to content validation. Each item in the questionnaire was formulated to relate to the topic under investigation.To determine the reliability of the instrument used for the study, test retest reliability was conducted on a smaller sample size using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient(r) and the result yielded 0.07, this shows a high level of reliability.